Let' say that you have a moderately bullish bias toward a stock and the overall market is slightly bullish. Is there a way that you can take advantage of this investing scenario while limiting risk?

Say you hear a takeover rumor. A $50 stock is rumored to be taken out at $55. Looks like a nice spec trade.

One of the most important steps in any option trade is to analyze implied volatility and historical volatility.

Option trading is easy. Well, let me qualify that statement just a bit.

To be good at anything requires learning the fundamentals and constantly working on them throughout your career.

Adjusting option positions is an essential skill for options traders. Adjusting options positions helps traders repair strategies that have gone wrong (or are beginning to go wrong) and often turn losers into winners.

Do you feel like you've seen this movie before? Trouble in the Middle East. People in the streets; panic in the market.

Option traders manage risk. Want a job description? That's about it.

It was standard trader lingo on the trading floor. "What's your delta of making it to the party tonight?"

The trifecta of option greeks are delta, theta and vega. But the next most important greek is gamma

Volume and open interest are two very important options data that can help traders understand what is going on in the options market.

Several groups of option strategies have defined maximum rewards that are approached as a result of the passage of time, changes in implied volatility (IV), and/or movement or failure of movement in price of the underlying.